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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h

'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 14h

Have started rewatching Xena warrior princess and wow boy did all the sexual innuendo go over my head as a teenager! Was not prepared for contract negotiations as sex joke

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Emily Jones @emilyjones.bsky.social · 17h

Join us on the 22nd October 2025 from 1-2pm UK time for this talk by Professor Susan Marks (LSE) on: 'If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?' This event will be held online and in person and all are welcome. To register, please go to: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 14h

See I’ve gone in the exact opposite direction and generally try everything at least once…and then get horribly told off by my physio who has to reassemble my shredded soft tissue! I just draw the line at doing it in a work context.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 20h

“Having sky tv is working class” really stuck with me!

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Jana Stern @schlechteidee.bsky.social · 20h

What an opener to an academic text: "I have written this grudgingly... So I asked myself: Apart from lack of care and thought, what is she doing that leads to her systematic misreading?" - Dorothy Smith on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited" (1997)

Beginning of Dorothy Smith's comment on Hekman (Signs 22, 2. 1997) "I HAVE WRITTEN THIS grudgingly. Susan Hekman's (in this
issue) interpretation of my work is so systematically out to lunch
that it is difficult to write a response that does not involve a replica-
tion of what I have already said, at length and in various versions,
elsewhere. But that would interest neither me nor readers. So I have asked
myself: Apart from lack of care and thought, what is she doing that leads to her systematic misreading? And what might be systematic about other
mistakes such as the chronology of "standpoint theory"'s development (a work published in 1979 is attributed to the decade following, 1983), or
that its roots were in Marxism (Where's the women's movement?), or that
it is less used and interesting currently (speak for your own discipline,
Susan; in sociology it flourishes), or that feminist standpoint theory has
become identified with "object-relations" theory (news to me)."

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 20h

Reading Kate Fox’s Watching the English shortly after moving to the UK was such an eye opener about an endless array of wrong things one can call a living room.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

That's 84 units a week, give or take, which these days would have your doctor contemplating an intervention...

American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 1d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 1d

Applications open for PGCert course in meeting the medical needs of adults with learning disability. Relevant for any clinical specialty, and to doctors, senior nurses and AHPs. Fully funded for applicants from England

#MedSky #LearningDisability

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Training programme to meet the medical needs of adults with a learning disability

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Had to restrain myself from adding at the bottom: NOW SEND US YOUR PIECE SANDRA ;)

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 1d

My piece for UKCLA on how much of the debate concerning human rights in the UK is about vibes... and wrestling. #ECHR #HRA
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

We would be very happy to add further contributions to the special section. Please do get in touch if you are interested in writing something for this!

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

These consider among other issues the role of legal documents, how history figures in the judgement, sports inclusion, the relationship to EU law, the connection to intersex issues, the question of legal personhood and two different feminist analyses of the decision.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Dunne, Emily Grabham and I have edited a special section of feminists@law on the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. You can find our editorial about this below. The special section has some brilliant critical and feminist takes on the decision journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

How can critical and feminist scholars respond to the decision in 'For Women Scotland'? | feminists@law

journals.kent.ac.uk

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Just an incredible turnaround time

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Almost immediately finding out one of the Bad Dr Who Cosplay Young Tories whose clothes we were making fun of wants to legalise sisterfucking is like a really quick Milkshake Duck if instead of drinking milkshake, the duck had been filmed masturbating into a neighbour's wheelie bin

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Here just to support this claim!

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw this once again, so let's say it again:

Boris Johnson did not resign because of PartyGate. He resigned because he knowingly covered up Chris Pincher's rampant sexual abuse of men, silenced complaints, appointed him to positions of power, and then lied to Parliament about all of the above.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Keep having to Brits that in Germany it is indeed possible to fail PE. Depending on the activity of choice that term I barely managed to scrape through with an E

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Animal Crossing and Breath of the Wild were absolute sanity savers during the pandemic. I still have a weird fondness for the noise the cooking animation made in BotW

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

I’m based in a law school but happy to supervise projects oriented more towards social policy, disability studies, ethics it that’s what the student has in mind.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

All my students get 'because of capitalism' as a free answer

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 2d

I actually can’t work out how you would swing the club without smacking into your shins or have to twist your spine around like a pretzel?

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 2d

A friend is using both of those in their powder form and says they work well, although I’m not sure if they are suitable for all types of asthma

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